Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

You never know what peace is until you walk on the shores or in the fields or along the winding red roads of Prince Edward Island in a summer twilight when the dew is falling and the old stars are peeping out and the sea keeps its mighty tryst with the little land it loves. You find your soul then. You realize that youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.

It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.

There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves--so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.

Nobody is ever too old to dream. And dreams never grow old.

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.

The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.

Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.

We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?

How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.

It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.

Saying one's prayers isn't exactly the same thing as praying.

Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.

There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.

There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it...until they have grown so old that they forget the way. Only a few, who remain children at heart, can ever find that fair, lost path again...The world calls them singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.

All things great are wound up with all things little.

I know that in everybody's life must come days of depression and discouragement when all things in life seem to lose savour. The sunniest day has its clouds;but one must not forget the sun is there all the time.

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.

Maples are such sociable trees ... They're always rustling and whispering to you.

Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.

The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.